The thought had occurred to me. However Dave seems to be against anything except ntpd deciding what constitutes the best set of servers. I even had a hook in the code base to expose this information just for this reason, but it got yanked out when the preempt code went in.
Jason Rabel wrote: >> What Henk has described is just the first step in a facility that I >> have been thinking about for quite some time. The idea is to allow a >> much more extensive level of self-organizing emergent NTP behavior. >> But the ability of get this type of incremental behavior is >> crucial to getting it to work. > > Brian, > > Perhaps rather than trying to implement in NTP itself via some new > command(s) you could make a helper app that communicates with NTP in a > similar manner to ntpq & ntpdc? It could then run as its own daemon or maybe > even just a cron job. > > -- blu Screening ideas are indeed thought up by the Office for Annoying Air Travelers and vetted through the Directorate for Confusion and Complexity - Kip Hawley, Head of the TSA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterback-at-ess-you-enn-dot-kom _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
